Last Frost Day

Frost history / Ignacio 6ESE, CO

Ignacio 6ESE, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00054254, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 6,548 ft, 37.086, -107.533. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 26Sep 28
EarliestMay 5 (2018)Sep 14 (2008)
LatestJun 12 (2008)Oct 24 (2015)
Trend8.1 days earlier per decade1.4 days later per decade
Years with data2021

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29201020202005: Jun 42006: May 292007: Jun 82008: Jun 122010: May 302011: May 312012: May 292013: May 282014: May 162015: May 202016: May 242017: May 212018: May 52019: May 292020: Jun 92021: May 252022: May 252023: May 102024: May 232025: May 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202005: Oct 122006: Sep 172007: Sep 252008: Sep 142009: Sep 222010: Oct 92011: Oct 82012: Oct 72013: Sep 282014: Oct 22015: Oct 242016: Sep 172017: Sep 242018: Sep 272019: Sep 222020: Sep 292021: Sep 212022: Oct 122023: Oct 132024: Sep 182025: Oct 5

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025May 21Oct 5May 21Oct 17
2024May 23Sep 18May 22Oct 30
2023May 10Oct 13May 9Oct 13
2022May 25Oct 12May 13Oct 24
2021May 25Sep 21Apr 29Oct 14
2020Jun 9Sep 29Apr 25Oct 12
2019May 29Sep 22May 24Oct 7
2018May 5Sep 27Apr 26Oct 15
2017May 21Sep 24May 20Sep 25
2016May 24Sep 17May 1Oct 4
2015May 20Oct 24Apr 23Oct 28
2014May 16Oct 2May 15Oct 13
2013May 28Sep 28May 4Sep 28
2012May 29Oct 7May 28Oct 8
2011May 31Oct 8May 31Oct 18
2010May 30Oct 9May 13Oct 26
2009no dataSep 22no dataOct 1
2008Jun 12Sep 14May 11Oct 13
2007Jun 8Sep 25May 24Oct 7
2006May 29Sep 17May 11Sep 17
2005Jun 4Oct 12May 12Oct 30

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.